1960 in Turkey

← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in Turkey → 1961 1962 1963
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1960 in Turkey.

Parliament

• 11th Parliament of Turkey (up to 27 May)

Incumbents

• President

Celal Bayar (up to 27 May)

Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)

• Prime Minister

Adnan Menderes (up to 27 May)

Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)

• Leader of the opposition

İsmet İnönü (up to 27 May)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party

Democrat Party (DP) (up to 27 May)

• Main opposition

Republican People's Party (CHP) (up to 27 May)

Cabinet

• 23rd government of Turkey (up to 27 May)
• 24th government of Turkey (from 27 May)

Events

• 2 April – In Yeşilhisar, because of the interference of ruling party partisans İsmet İnönü the leader of the opposition was not able to continue his election campaign
• 27 April – The ruling party formed a committee (popularly called Sancar komisyonu) to convict the opposition
• 5 May – Demonstrations in Ankara (known as 555K)
• 27 May – Coup d'état
• 12 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league.
• 22 October – Census (population 27754820)
• 15 November – 14 members of the junta were appointed to diplomatic missionaries (exiled)

Births

• 23 January – Güldal Akşit, politician
• 3 February – İlyas Tüfekçi, footballer
• 8 May – Recep Akdağ, MD and politician
• 14 May – Sinan Alaağaç, footballer (goalkeeper)
• 11 June Mehmet Öz, MD
• 18 November – Yeşim Ustaoğlu, filmmaker and screenwriter
• 26 December – Cem Uzan, industrialist and politician

Deaths

• 22 May – İbrahim Çallı (aged 78), painter
• 30 May – Namık Gedik (aged 49), former minister of Interior (suicide)
• 23 June – İsmail Hakkı Tonguç (aged 67), one of the founders of the Village Institutes.
• 29 July – Hasan Saka (aged 74), a former prime minister (1940s)

Gallery

• 
  Celal Bayar
• 
  Cemal Gürsel
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  Adnan Menderes
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Mehmet Öz
• 
  Hasan Saka

See also

• 1959–60 Milli Lig
• Turkey at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Turkey at the 1960 Winter Olympics